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KLOI- Gary Alexander - Classic Jazz
Mar 25, 2024
3:00am - 6:00pm
KLOI LP - 102.9
Joy Spring w/Gary Alexander

his Week: The first hour comprises 10 songs with Spring in the title, in honor of the new season, including two versions of our theme song, “Joy Spring.” At 3:45, we begin the fourth (of 5) extended segments honoring the five-decade career of top jazz singer Sarah Vaughan (born a century ago, March 27, 1924), this time beginning with her appearance at Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen in 1963 and then spending most of the 4:00 hour with her superb 1973 concert in Tokyo and her 1978 album with the Oscar Peterson quartet. The 5:00 hour continues our deep dip into the host’s LP crypt with two big bands in the “E” box, the final Ellington album, a 1977 “Tribute to Ellington” by singers Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby in Bing’s final U.S. recording, followed by two best-selling albums by Les Elgart’s dance band from 1956 and 1957.